“…Runoff from roads has been implicated as a significant cause of freshwater impairment (Bartlett, Rochfort, Brown, & Marsalek, 2012;Gazendam, Gharabaghi, McBean, Whiteley, & Kostaschuk, 2009;. Hydrocarbons, chlorides, and heavy metals such as nickel, zinc, chromium, lead, and copper are characteristic of highway runoff (Hallberg, Renman, & Lundbom, 2007;Mayer et al, 2011;Perera et al, 2010Perera et al, & 2013Trenouth, Gharabaghi, & Perera, 2015;Trenouth et al, 2018;Salek et al, 2018). Diffuse sources of pollutants on roadways include automobile deterioration, tailpipe exhaust, and slow leaks of vehicle fluids (Thomson, McBean, Mostrenko, & Snodgrass, 1994).…”